{"nrhp_refnum":"82002571","name":"Millard, George Madison, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1689 Lake Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Highland Park","county":"Lake County","state":"IL","lat":42.18744202500005,"lon":-87.78551702099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-09-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential building at 1689 Lake Avenue in Highland Park, Lake County, Illinois, designed in 1906 by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Prairie School style for George Madison Millard.","why_significant":"The form presents the house as an example of Wright's Prairie School style. It also describes it as a precursor to the plan, massing and organization of his Frederick C. Robie House of 1909 in Chicago. The form notes that the same Millards later commissioned Wright's \"La Miniature\" in Pasadena, California, in 1923.","narrative":"This house at 1689 Lake Avenue in Highland Park, Illinois, was designed in 1906 by Frank Lloyd Wright for George Madison Millard. It is a Prairie School residence with a cruciform plan massed around a central hearth. Its walls are horizontal brown-stained board and batten, capped by hipped roofs with overhangs of about three and a half feet. Ribbon strips of windows, some with leaded glass, run across the walls. The inventory notes that the house most closely resembles, and predates, Wright's Frederick C. Robie House of 1909 in Chicago, particularly in the long axis of the plan. It was listed as an example of Wright's Prairie School work and as a forerunner of the Robie House in plan, massing and organization. The same Millards later commissioned Wright to build \"La Miniature\" in Pasadena, California, in 1923. The house remains residential. Its interior room layout has been altered and the kitchen remodeled, and its condition was recorded as fair to deteriorated.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Frank Lloyd Wright","architectural_style":"Prairie School Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Residential use, original and present. Condition is marked fair/deteriorated, with the interior room organization altered and the kitchen remodeled.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.348069-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/46/8912/28891246/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/82002571.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002571/732954fe2a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002571/732954fe2a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ronincmc","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_madison_millard_house_1689Lakeave.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ronincmc</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_madison_millard_house_1689Lakeave.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891246","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Madison_Millard_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5542047"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/lake-county/millard-george-madison-house-82002571/"}